'Social justice' drives indoctrination in schools

COMMENTARY
From Larry Sand, president of the California Teachers Empowerment Network:

Last week, the drone-like National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel gave a talk at the annual gathering of the Nebraska State Education Association. He unleashed the same tired old class warfare hogwash that teacher union leaders have been yammering about for years. The latest version of this old whine stresses closing corporate tax loopholes. As I wrote last week, the NEA claims the U.S. can recoup $1.5 trillion in taxes if those greedy corporate types would just pay their “fair share.” Van Roekel conveniently omits the fact that NEA took in $400,000,000 in 2010-2011, mostly in dues forcibly taken from its members, and didn’t pay one red cent in taxes.

Van Roekel then reprised another union mantra – claiming that NEA must pursue “social justice.” He said,

You can't have an organization with our core values and not care about social justice.You can't have a democracy and not care about social justice, whether it's discrimination based on race or religion or sexual orientation, discrimination is discrimination and it's wrong. And we as an organization have to stand up and say that.

The subject of social justice – its history and damage that it has caused – could fill volumes. But here is an abridged version.

Read more at AirModalIndependent (HT: Erin Ryan).